BREAKING: CHRIS WRAY LIED UNDER OATH! FBI Had 274 Plainclothes Agents in the Crowd on January 6th – IT WAS A TOTAL FEDSURRECTION
by Jim Hoft Sep. 26, 2025 7:00 am
Former FBI Director Chris Wray lied to Congress and the American people when he said under oath that there were no FBI agents undercover on January 6. – Congressional video
It appears that James Comey could have a familiar cellmate when he is finally sent to prison for lying under oath to Congress and the American people.
Former FBI Director Chris Wray lied and lectured House Republicans for accusing the FBI of planting informants/operatives/agents inside the massive crowd of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
In a bold statement that directly contradicts multiple official sources, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress in July 2023 that he “does not believe” undercover FBI agents were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Wray’s statement came during a tense exchange with Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who specifically asked about the number of undercover agents in the Capitol vicinity on the infamous day.
Wray stated that he could not provide such a figure and even expressed doubt about the presence of undercover agents at all.
“I’m not sure there were undercover agents on scene,” Wray responded to Biggs. “As I sit here right now, I do not believe there were undercover agents on.”
Biggs wrote on Twitter that “Wray will be held accountable for this lie.”
“FBI Director Wray just told me he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6. This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief,” Biggs added.
WATCH:
FBI Director Wray just told me he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.
Wray will be held accountable for this lie. pic.twitter.com/jJ4RV3PINE
FBI Director Wray just told me he "does not believe" there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.
The Director’s statement is in stark contrast to facts previously revealed by the Washington D.C. FBI Field Office. According to their confirmed reports, a number of undercover officers, confidential informants, and FBI assets were indeed present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
On Thursday night, the FBI finally acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021. This was hundreds more than was previously reported.
The Blaze reported:
A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events.
But given the FBI’s until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters.
The news comes in the wake of claims by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General that the FBI had no undercover personnel in the Jan. 6 crowds.
“We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,” the DOJ OIG said in an 88-page report released in December 2024.
As the Gateway Pundit as previously reported — Dozens if not hundreds of government operatives infiltrated the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Gateway Pundit previously identified 20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021.
Each one of these incidents has been confirmed by the far-left press or the government in court documents.
We currently have no idea how many federal, state and local government operatives were working undercover on January 6 but it looks like it is close to 100 operatives leading the charge on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Recent court documents reveal the Biden Department of Justice admitting to at least 40 undercover operatives with the Proud Boys on January 6.
In September 2022, TGP learned the FBI was running operatives inside The Oath Keepers on January 6th. The DOJ sprung this on the Oath Keepers members before their trial in Washington DC before a Kangaroo Court. The US government finally admitted in this letter they sent out before the trial that they were running Confidential Human Sources (CHS) inside the Oath Keepers organization on January 6.
In November 2022, the FBI finally admitted they had 8 informants inside the Proud Boys organization on January 6 and likely more.
The FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys in the months around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them before and after it took place. https://t.co/vfMPExBNW3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2022
The DOJ admitted to 40 government CHS agents were undercover on January 6th.
Proud Boys defendant Dominic Pezzola recently reported this admission.
SHOCK: The DoJ now admits that another 40 undercover agents were with the Proud Boys on J6 – from HSI – Homeland Security Investigations. The vast majority of the group was paid by the government as either W2 employees or CHS. pic.twitter.com/tCKZubpJmq
SHOCK: The DoJ now admits that another 40 undercover agents were with the Proud Boys on J6 - from HSI - Homeland Security Investigations. The vast majority of the group was paid by the government as either W2 employees or CHS. pic.twitter.com/tCKZubpJmq
And the number keeps growing – to 50 or more that they are admitting to.
BREAKING: Another doozy of a motion filed today by a Proud Boy defense lawyer related to informants, undercover agents
Number of DC Metro undercovers keeps growing: pic.twitter.com/3vOrIUZNPT
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 10, 2023
Undercover @DCPoliceDept bicycle driver stands right beside rolled up “Restricted Area” green fencing on west side of @uscapitol Jan 6
He speaks to three other undercovers (blue jacket, orange hat, and camera wearer) before 3x other cops walk up to west steps, north end pic.twitter.com/J9xkG9XNZo
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) March 25, 2023
As public discourse around these events continues to unfold, Wray’s claims stand in stark opposition to confirmed facts. It remains to be seen how these contradictions will be addressed and what consequences they will have for Director Wray and the FBI as a whole.
The H1B Visa Scam — It’s Bigger and Worse Than We Thought
Vishwanatha Badikana, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
by Antonio Graceffo Sep. 28, 2025 9:00 am
President Trump recently cracked down on the H1B visa program, requiring companies to pay $100,000 to sponsor a worker.
The program was originally intended to bring in temporary employees with highly specialized skills that few Americans possessed. H
owever, as the White House proclamation states, the H-1B program “has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers.”
In practice, it now serves to import general IT and tech workers, displacing Americans and driving down wages.
Investigations have uncovered widespread fraud: fake applicants, forged documents, and shell companies that sponsor visas and then place workers into U.S. firms on contract.
Over the past 30 years, a pattern has emerged in which hiring an Indian HR manager often leads to a steady increase in Indian workers until Americans become a minority in certain departments or entire companies.
Wages are suppressed, discouraging Americans from entering these fields and reinforcing the false claim that there are jobs Americans “won’t” or “can’t” do.
In reality, Americans will take any job if the pay is fair, and proper wages motivate them to pursue training. The proof lies in recent layoffs: in 2022, the top 30 companies brought in 34,000 new H-1B workers even as they cut at least 85,000 staff.
The new Trump policy will reduce the number of new H1B visas issued but does nothing about the roughly 600,000 holders already in the country. The dishonesty and scope of the problem are far greater than most people realize.
Salvatore Militello, who has spent decades in the IT sector as both a technician and later a recruiter, told me in an interview how the H1B program has harmed the industry.
“I started working with Microsoft in around the year 2000. And then I became independent. From 2000 to about 2015 or 2016, there was this trend of bringing people from India over to Microsoft. I would occasionally work on campus, managing these difficult projects for Microsoft. They were called rescue projects.”
He recalled companies claiming they couldn’t find qualified Americans, but he didn’t believe it. “I’m thinking, yes, you can find people.” The reality, he said, was that companies simply didn’t want to pay American wages.
Militello noted that salaries offered to Indian workers were 30 to 40 percent below the market average, which in turn pushed wages across the board downward.
Across the industry, he saw a broader pattern of offshoring tied to H-1B visas.
“They had an offshore team, or they brought a mix of offshore and some of those onshore, which I used to call extended offshore, because that’s what they were with this H-1B business.”
COVID accelerated the trend. Once American employees were forced to work from home, companies found it easier to offshore jobs. Replacing remote U.S. staff with Indians working from India became seamless, and this also opened the door to bringing more Indian workers into the United States on H-1B visas to replace local employees.
According to Militello, the largest drivers of H-1B expansion have been Amazon, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. Amazon filed 10,969 Labor Condition Applications in fiscal year 2024, leading to 10,044 approvals in 2025.
The White House cited similar patterns, noting that one firm was approved for more than 5,000 H-1B visas in 2025 while laying off 15,000 workers, and another cut 2,400 staff in Oregon while securing nearly 1,700 approvals.
Amazon remained the top sponsor, rising from 9,257 approvals in 2024 to 10,044 in 2025, an increase of 787. Other major firms, including Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and JPMorgan Chase, also expanded their H-1B sponsorships.
LinkedIn has played a critical role in fueling this deluge. Evidence shows Indian recruiters use the platform aggressively to promote visa opportunities and connect workers with American companies.
Reports describe more than 14,000 call centers in India, each employing 500 to 1,000 workers with access to LinkedIn, Dice, ChatGPT, and VoIP, and each recruiter given quotas for collecting résumés. At the center of this system is the “bench sales” model.
LinkedIn job searches show hundreds of listings in India for “Sr. Bench Sales Recruiters,” whose role is to market H-1B workers who are between projects and place them in U.S. companies as quickly as possible.
American job seekers are now familiar with aggressive Indian recruiters who contact them with vague offers, demand résumés and personal details, and provide little real information.
These résumés are often harvested to “spice up” Indian candidates’ profiles or to fabricate a paper trail showing that domestic workers were considered and rejected, even though the jobs are reserved for pre-selected H-1B applicants.
This explains why so many Americans are contacted repeatedly about jobs they never hear back on. Fake recruiters use domestic résumés as evidence of unsuccessful screenings, creating the documentation needed for visa fraud.
The business model depends on scale and low costs. Bench recruiters in India may earn about $1,000 per month, while agencies profit from each consultant placed.
Many LinkedIn postings explicitly require knowledge of visa categories (H-1B, OPT, CPT, GC, USC) and emphasize working with visa-holding consultants.
After moving into recruiting, Militello was asked to review résumés from Indian applicants.
“What I found was that applicants would say they were H-1B, but they weren’t. They were here illegally. How do I know? Because I checked.”
When he explained that without a valid visa the company could not sponsor them, applicants often replied, “That’s okay. I have a friend with a corporation in the U.S. You pay the corporation, and they will pay me.”
This was one of many scams.
Shell companies, sometimes listing large numbers of employees on paper, existed only to loan workers out on consultancy contracts to U.S. firms. The shell company, not the worker, received the salary.
To keep costs attractive, the rate charged to the hiring company was below market value, and the shell company took a cut, leaving the worker with only a fraction of the standard pay.
Militello recalled that when the going rate was $100 an hour, Indian workers sometimes ended up with just $60.
In addition to his interactions with job seekers, Militello described the constant outreach from Indian scam recruiters. “We’ve got 20 candidates and their first name is Singh, Amit, Sumit—you get it. Twenty of them.
And then they say, ‘We have these people that need work, do you have any positions open for them?’ You can’t do that. If you have the work, I’m not going to participate.” He shared one such email, which read:
“Hello,
Greetings for the Day!!
This is Ganesh, from Sainar Solutions INC., working as a Bench Sales Recruiter.
We have excellent consultants in our Bench, who are actively looking for projects on C2C/C2H.
Please let me know if you have any suitable requirements. Kindly share me the requirements with…”
The recruiter’s email itself demonstrates multiple violations.
The H-1B program requires a specific job that cannot be filled by an American worker, yet the email shows they had candidates first and were seeking jobs second, exactly the opposite of the law. It also implies the workers were “on the bench,” waiting without pay for placement, another violation of federal rules.
Finally, offering to supply workers through a third-party arrangement raises employer-employee relationship issues, since the sponsoring company may not actually control the worker’s employment.
The H-1B visa scam grew under Obama and exploded under Biden. Now it is being squelched by Trump.
The additional steps the president needs to take are scrutinizing and canceling many of the 600,000 existing H-1B visas, and shutting down the consulting companies and Indian recruiters that enable the system.
Given his speed and thoroughness, the administration may already be working on that.
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims.
By NEW YORK (AP)
The two sides said in a filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday that they have agreed to permanently dismiss the suit against the former New York City mayor and former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump.
The brief filing doesn’t cite the settlement terms. Spokespeople for Giuliani and the Colorado-based company said Saturday that the terms are confidential and declined to comment further.
Dominion sued Giuliani in 2021 for $1.3 billion in damages after he led Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election results.
Conservatives and other Trump supporters blamed the company, one of the nation’s top voting machine makers, for the Republican’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Many alleged, without evidence, that its systems were easily manipulated. Dominion had provided voting machines for the state of Georgia, a critical battleground that Biden won and which flipped control of the U.S. Senate.
The web of conspiracy theories following the the 2020 election not only caused headaches for Dominion but also undermined public confidence in U.S. elections, led to calls to ban voting machines and triggered death threats against elections officials.
Fox News also agreed to a nearly $800 million settlement with Dominion in 2023, and another politically conservative network, Newsmax, agreed to a $67 million settlement with Dominion over its election claims.
The company’s suit against Giuliani was based on statements the onetime presidential hopeful made on social media, on conservative news outlets and during legislative hearings in which he claimed the company conspired to flip votes to Biden.
Dominion’s lawsuit was among a series of legal and financial setbacks for Giuliani stemming from his role in spreading election conspiracy theories.
Earlier this month, a New York judge ordered the Republican, once celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to pay $1.36 million in legal fees.
Giuliani, in recent years, has also been disbarred as an attorney in New York and Washington; filed for bankruptcy and reached an undisclosed settlement to keep his homes and belongings after he was ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia elections workers he defamed.
The study was still on the website as of Sept. 11, 2025, but was removed by the following day, two days after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
By Emery Winter
Following the Sept. 10, 2025, fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the administration of President Donald Trump threatened to crack down on the "radical left," including by potentially classifying some groups as domestic terrorists.
People on social media critical of the administration pointed out that it had removed a study from the U.S. Department of Justice website that showed right-wing domestic terrorism was far more common than left-wing or Islamist extremist domestic terrorism. One Reddit thread making the claim received more than 100,000 upvotes, while another received another 5,000 upvotes. The claim also spread to other social media sites, such as Facebook and Instagram .
The study, titled, "What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism," was published to the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice website on Jan. 4, 2024, during the administration of then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The study's text was posted directly to the website and in a PDF. Both links were archived with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
"In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives," the study's authors wrote in its first paragraph. "In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."
Attempting to go to the same URL on Sept. 17, 2025, redirected to the DOJ Office of Justice Programs, which hosts the NIJ homepage. When trying to access the link to the PDF, the website says that the requested page could not be found. The study also could not be found with a website search for words in the study's title, "domestic terrorism." A Google search for the study's name, narrowed to .gov websites, did not bring up the study, only the PDF link that redirects to the 404 page. Links to the study from other organizations redirected to the same pages.
The Internet Archive's archive history for the study's page showed the study was still available on the DOJ's website on Sept. 11, 2025. However, by the time it was next saved — around 2 p.m. Eastern Time Sept. 12 — the study was removed from the website, and its link redirected to the OJP homepage. Snopes reached out to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.
The NIJ website maintains a domestic radicalization and terrorism topic page, which includes other research conducted under previous administrations, such as an April 2024 report on the role of social media networks in domestic radicalization. The OJP also has a much-older study on right-wing extremism from 1987 still available on its website.
The removed study's findings line up with other research into the subject. A report from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that excluding 9/11, the majority of murders in politically motivated terrorist acts in the U.S. since 1975 have been by people with right-wing ideologies. Even when including the 9/11 attacks, which skews the data heavily toward Islamic extremism being the most common ideology of politically motivated terrorist attacks, right-wing ideologies were still far more common than left-wing ideologies in perpetrators of politically motivated terrorist acts.
A University of Maryland Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice study similarly found it was nearly twice as likely for a violent act of extremism in the U.S. to be committed by a right-wing extremist than by a left-wing extremist.
In the email, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and asked supporters for $15 donations.
By Jordan Liles
Claim:
An August 2025 email from one of U.S. President Donald Trump's political action committees asked for $15 donations and began,"I want to try and get to heaven."
Rating: True
In late August 2025, online users claimed an official fundraising email from U.S. President Donald Trump asked for $15 donations and began, "I want to try and get to heaven." Snopes received reader emails about this matter, and users also searched our website for information.
One X user shared a screenshot of the purported message, and wrote (archived), "Trump sent out an email at 8 am this morning saying 'I want to try and get to heaven.' Pretty weird to send out when you're trying to reassure people that you're healthy!"
The user created the post on Aug. 30 during Labor Day weekend — the same time social media users widely shared a false rumor that Trump had died, as we previously
An official, Trump-led political action committee truly sent the email with the "get to heaven" subject line, in which he asked supporters for $15 donations. In the message, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and told supporters to "never surrender."
Several different screenshots of the email helped to confirm the message as authentic. The PoliticalEmails.org website — a website that archives political emails — also hosted the message with three sending dates: Aug. 23 (archived), Aug. 25 (archived) and Sept. 2 (archived).
The email displayed the "from" email address of contact@win.donaldjt rump.com, featuring the official, Trump-owned website domain donaldjtrump.com. The message's footer read, in part, "Paid by Never Surrender, Inc." Earlier in August, Politico labeled Never Surrender as Trump's primary leadership PAC. (Never Surrender is also the name of a Minnesota-based charity with no affiliation to the Trump PAC.)
Trump spoke the same "get to heaven" phrase days earlier during an Aug. 19 phone interview with the hosts of the Fox News morning TV show "Fox & Friends." While discussing the prospect of saving soldiers and citizens from being killed in Ukraine-Russia war, as well as other conflicts, Trump said the following (emphasis ours):
If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty … I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I mean, I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.
Trump's full 'get to heaven' email
The PoliticalEmails.org website the full Trump fundraising email. The message featured the unfounded claim of a "rigged 2020 election," as well as other evidence-free claims. The email read as follows:
Friend,
I want to try and get to Heaven.
Last year I came millimeters from death when that bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen!
But I believe that God saved me for one reason: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
I wasn't supposed to beat Crooked Hillary in 2016 — but I did.
I wasn't supposed to secure the border & build the greatest economy in history — but I did.
I certainly wasn't supposed to survive an assassin's bullet — but by the grace of the almighty God, I did.
SO NOW, I have no other choice but to answer the Call to Duty, but I can't do it alone.
Friend, you've been with me through everything.
You were there when they launched: the Russia Hoax, the first Impeachment, the second Impeachment, the rigged 2020 election, the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Arrest and Mugshot at the Fulton County Jail, the Removal from the CO ballot, the sham cases in DC / FL / NY / DC, the first Assassination attempt, the second Assassination attempt, and so much more!
Just because I won in a HISTORIC landslide and have unleashed the Golden Age of America, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN TAKE OUR FOOT OFF THE GAS!
The forces that hate our country don't want a secure border or safe cities or high paying jobs. The Radical Left Lunatics want to STOP MAGA, but we're not going to let them NO MATTER WHAT.
Let me make this SOLEMN PLEDGE to you: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!
I put my life on the line willingly because this is what I was made to do, but our movement, the beautiful MAGA movement, is powered by YOU.
Every time they count us out – count YOU out – we come back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
This is our moment to show the world that we will NEVER back down, NEVER give an inch, and NEVER SURRENDER in our fight to save this country.
That's why I've launched a 24 HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ, and I'm asking everyone to chip in $15 to make it one for the record books!
So if you're with me all the way to the end, join with MILLIONS of your fellow PATRIOTS by chipping in $15 to keep the wins rolling in! >
GIVE $15STAND WITH TRUMP
Sincerely,Donald John Trump
STAND WITH TRUMP
Paid for by Never Surrender, Inc. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate authorized's committee. www.donaldjtrump.com.
Is Wray Next?… Kash Patel Accuses Chris Wray of Lying to Congress about FBI Agents in the Crowd on January 6, 2021 – Calls Out His “Corrupt Leadership”
The massive patriotic crowd at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Little did they know their government planted 274 FBI agents in the crowd to create havoc that day. – screengrab
by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 28, 2025 7:45 am
On Thursday night, the FBI finally acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021. This was hundreds more than was previously reported.
As the Gateway Pundit as previously reported — Dozens if not hundreds of government operatives infiltrated the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Gateway Pundit previously identified 20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021.
But we had no idea there were 274 FBI agents operating in the crowd that day.
On Thursday after this news broke on the hundreds of FBI operatives in the crowd that day, TGP pointed out that Chris Wray lied about this while under oath in front of Congress.
You can read more here.
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BREAKING: CHRIS WRAY LIED UNDER OATH! FBI Had 274 Plainclothes Agents in the Crowd on January 6th – IT WAS A TOTAL FEDSURRECTION
by Jim Hoft Sep. 26, 2025 7:00 am
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Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...-oath-fbi-had/
On Saturday President Trump lashed out at Dirty former FBI Director Chris Wray and his lies to Congress about January 6.
President Trump: It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!
And later today FBI Director Kash Patel also tweeted out that Chris Wray lied to Congress.
Wray said there were no FBI operatives there. Wray lied.
274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards.
That failure was on corrupt leadership.
Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out.
Did Nicole Sirotek get a 4 a.m. call from the husband of a pregnant woman dying of liver failure after she took a large dose of Tylenol to disprove President Donald Trump's declaration that acetaminophen causes autism? Here's what we know
By: Dean Miller
Sirotek, who Lead Stories has previously fact-checked for COVID misinformation, posted the anecdote on social media September 24, 2025, without including details. Sirotek had not responded to multiple requests for information to verify the story as of September 26, 2025. We do not know a place, date, hospital, patient name or doctor's name to corroborate what Sirotek wrote.
Sirotek has told the story on several social media accounts, including an X post September 24, 2025 (archived here) on the @nicoleSirotek account. The first thread in the series reads:
Got a frantic call at 4am from a husband who was given my phone number via someone who had it. His pregnant wife is now on a ventilator dying of liver failure trying to "prove" that Tylenol doesn't cause autism since this is trending in TikTok.
The thread continues:
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won't survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won't survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
This behavior is ridiculous. This woman hated Trump so much because of the HARVARD STUDY on Tylenol and Autism she ultimately killed herself by overdosing on Tylenol to try and "prove Trump wrong." Her baby may not even survive either
Lead Stories is one of several social media users to have asked Sirotek on several platforms to provide enough detail, or family contacts or hospital contacts, to permit independent verification.
Sirotek is a Nevada nurse active in spreading misinformation about public health measures. In 2023, Lead Stories fact checked an Instagram video in which Sirotek, a Nevada nurse, falsely claimed Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug used to treat COVID, was killing people.
Identifying ourselves as journalists working in response to a Community Note request on X, Lead Stories reached out September 25, 2025 to Sirotek through the contact address at her America's Frontline Nurses organization, of which she is the founder. A day later, she had not responded to that request.
Lead Stories also reached out directly via the contact information on her webpage, Nicolesirotek.com. A day later, she had not responded to our request.
In comments below the Instagram version of her anecdote, (archived here) Lead Stories posted a comment on September 26, explaining our efforts to reach her for comment and to gather more information. At the time of writing this fact check, she had not responded to that request, either. Other users on Instagram raised the same questions, asking her to specify and to report on the condition of the baby
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election
By STEVE KARNOWSKI
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.
But U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan deferred until future proceedings the question of whether Lindell — one of the country’s most prominent propagators of false claims that the 2020 election was a fraud — acted with the “actual malice” that Smartmatic still needs to prove to collect any damages.
The judge said there are “genuine fact disputes” as to whether Lindell’s statements were made “with knowledge that they were false or made with reckless disregard to their falsity.” He noted that the defense says Lindell has an “unwavering belief” that his statements were truthful.
The statements cited by the judge arose from Lindell’s criticism of the results of the 2020 election in California’s Los Angeles County, which Democratic candidate Joe Biden carried with 71% of the vote over President Donald Trump and helped Biden secure the state’s 55 electoral votes.
The county used Smartmatic’s computerized touchscreen ballot-marking devices and was the company’s only customer for the 2020 election. Lindell alleged the machines were rigged to change Trump votes to Biden votes.
The judge ruled there were 51 specific times when Lindell falsely claimed — in documentaries he produced and through various media and personal appearances — that Smartmatic interfered with the results.
“The Court concludes that, based on the record presented, no reasonable trier of fact could find that any of the statements at issue are true,” Bryan wrote.
Smartmatic attorney Erik Connolly said they will be seeking “nine-figure damages” from Lindell and MyPillow for “spreading lies” about the company.
“Smartmatic did not and could not have rigged the 2020 election,” Connolly said in a statement. “It was impossible, and everything that Mr. Lindell said about Smartmatic was false.”
Smartmatic has been on a winning streak, having reached settlements last year with two conservative news outlets, including Newsmax and One America News Network. The Florida-based company also still has an active case against Fox News.
Lindell also has made similar claims against Dominion Voting Systems. He lost a case involving the Denver-based company in June when a jury ruled that he defamed a former Dominion employee by accusing him of treason. The jury awarded $2.3 million in damages.
Lindell told The Associated Press shortly after the Smartmatic ruling was filed Friday that he hadn’t seen it, but that it was “the most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard.”
Lindell went on to call Smartmatic “one of the most corrupt companies in the world,” and he vowed to keep fighting until its voting machines are “melted down and turned into prison bars.” He said he’ll take his crusade to eliminate voting machines in favor of paper ballots all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if he has to.
Lindell, known as the “MyPillow” guy for his bedding company, also said he recently reestablished residence in Minnesota as a step toward a likely run for governor against incumbent Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. While MyPillow is based in the Minneapolis suburbs, Lindell had been living until recently in Texas.
Lindell and MyPillow have faced a number of legal and financial setbacks in recent years, but he won a victory in July when a federal appeals court ruled he didn’t have to pay a $5 million arbitration award to a software engineer who disputed data that Lindell claimed proved China interfered in the 2020 election. The court said the arbitration panel overstepped its authority.
Trump Authorizes Troops to Protect Portland ICE Facilities from Antifa
Federal agents violently confront protesters gathered outside of the suburban Chicago ICE
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Nick Gilbertson 27 Sep 2025
President Donald Trump has authorized the use of troops to protect Portland, Oregon, and any Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities that are “under siege from attack by Antifa.”
Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday morning to announce the action, which comes at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s request.
“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump wrote.
He emphasized that he is “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
Trump designated Antifa a terrorist organization on Monday with an executive order on the heels of the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk on September 10.
One inscription of an unfired shell casing of accused Kirk Assassin, Tyler Robinson, read, “O Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,” per Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT), an apparent reference to the Italian song “Bella Ciao” idolized in Antifa circles. Another casing inscription read, “Hey Fascist! Catch!” per Cox.
During an executive order signing event on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance highlighted a violent anti-ICE riot in Portland over the Summer that led to the siege of an ICE building.
“I believe it was in Oregon where you had a federal building where there were men in black ski masks who were committing acts of violence, who were shutting down a government building,” Vance said.
“These are paid people. This is organized,” Vance added. “They’re committing acts of political terrorism on American soil, and it’s time we had a government that looked out for the American people rather than the people who are committing violence against the American people.”
Trump indicated the federal government would soon be stepping into Portland to restore order.
“These are crazy people, and they’re trying to burn down buildings, including federal buildings,” Trump said.
“But we’re going to get out there, and we’re going to do a pretty big number on those people in Portland that are doing that. They’re professional agitators and anarchists. They’re actually anarchists,” he went on to add.
The president’s baseless claim continued a yearslong effort to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.
By Kyle Cheney and Irie Sentner
President Donald Trump on Saturday falsely accused the FBI of fomenting the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol — a sharp escalation of his attacks on the bureau and his effort to downplay the violence a mob of his supporters inflicted that day.
Trump on social media said the FBI had “secretly placed” 274 agents into the crowd of rioters who stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
His comments stemmed from reports Friday in right-leaning media that appeared to conflate the FBI’s response to the Jan. 6 attack — the bureau has long acknowledged sending agents and support personnel to the Capitol after the breach to help restore order — with conspiracy theories that the bureau embedded undercover agents to ignite the attack in the first place.
In reality, the inspector general of the Justice Department revealed 10 months ago that “hundreds” of FBI agents went to the Capitol to assist at the request of the beleaguered Capitol Police. The bureau also had personnel responding to pipe bombs placed outside the national Republican and Democratic parties’ headquarters and to a vehicle full of explosives.
The inspector general did find that 26 FBI confidential sources — who are not employees of the bureau but have at times shared information — were among the crowd that day. But nearly all of them, the IG found, did not tell the bureau of their plans to attend, and none were instructed to violate any laws or participate in the riot.
The IG report also found “no evidence” that the agency had “undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.”
The president’s post appears to be an escalation that falsely accuses the agency of inciting the riot, based on a series of reports across conservative websites. On Thursday, Just The News said it obtained an “after action report” that was turned over to a recently launched House subcommittee to reinvestigate Jan. 6. Just The News claimed the report — of which the veracity has not been confirmed by POLITICO — revealed the FBI “had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns after the violence started” but with no clear identification.
The Blaze, citing an unnamed congressional source, said the agency “acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021.” Both outlets reported that hundreds of officers were there in plainclothes, but that doesn’t appear to be supported by the document posted by Just The News.
Nevertheless, Trump leaned into the conspiracy theories, accusing the agents, with no evidence, of “probably” acting as “Agitators and Insurrectionists.”
“I want to know who each and every one of these so-called ‘Agents’ are, and what they were up to on that now ‘Historic’ Day,’” Trump said. “Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love their Country.”
Two days after he helped engineer the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, Trump used the inaccurate description of the bureau’s Jan. 6 response to suggest Comey’s successor — Christopher Wray — misled Congress.
“That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake,” Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly sought to reframe the attack on the Capitol as a day of peaceful protest. Thousands of his supporters ransacked the Capitol, injuring 140 police officers and sending Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence fleeing for safety.
Trump pardoned and ordered the dismissal of criminal charges of nearly every participant in the attack, including many who bludgeoned and maced police officers.
Spokespeople at the FBI and the White House declined to comment.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday directing a government-wide effort to counter domestic terrorism and political violence, building on his earlier order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
The plan establishes a National Joint Terrorism Task Force and increases cooperation among the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Treasury. “We’re looking at the funders of a lot of these groups,” Trump said during the signing. The memo cited assassination attempts against Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an attack on a Texas ICE facility, and riots in Los Angeles and Portland as examples of coordinated threats.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism,” deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said. Attorney General Pam Bondi emphasized that any group engaging in political violence could be targeted.
FBI Director Kash Patel said investigators will “follow the money” to disrupt extremist networks. Trump suggested liberal donor George Soros may be linked, though he offered no evidence.
Experts note that antifa is not a formal organization but rather a loose movement of activists. Multiple government and academic studies have also found that right-wing extremists commit the majority of domestic terrorism incidents in the United States.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is now drawing up options to launch drone strikes INSIDE VENEZUELA against the cartels, per NBC.
The strikes could occur within weeks against cartel members, leadership and drug labs.
President Trump has NOT yet approved anything.
These cartels have targeted the lives of MILLIONS of Americans for years. We are being invaded and attacked. FAFO.
🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. EYES DRONE STRIKES ON VENEZUELA DRUG CARTELS
The Trump administration is cooking up plans to go after drug lords and labs inside Venezuela, taking things up a notch from blowing up boats in the Caribbean.
Trump has already claimed three “drug boat” kills this month… https://t.co/3A48Pp2wTg pic.twitter.com/Mzh6YwPDir
🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. EYES DRONE STRIKES ON VENEZUELA DRUG CARTELS
The Trump administration is cooking up plans to go after drug lords and labs inside Venezuela, taking things up a notch from blowing up boats in the Caribbean.
The Trump administration is cooking up plans to go after drug lords and labs inside Venezuela, taking things up a notch from blowing up boats in the Caribbean.
Trump has already claimed three “drug boat” kills this month with 17 dead, though proof of actual drugs has been about as clear as swamp water.
Maduro insists he’s not running a cartel, yet there’s a $50 million price tag on his head and U.S. warships and F-35s circling nearby.
Looks like Maduro is hinting at concessions, but Washington still treats his government like it’s on the world’s “illegitimate regimes” list.
Source: NBC News, NY Post
While nothing has been confirmed yet, the military strikes could take place within the next few weeks.
NBC News has more:
U.S. military officials are drawing up options to target drug traffickers inside Venezuela, and strikes within that country’s borders could potentially begin in a matter of weeks, four sources told NBC News.
Those sources are two U.S. officials familiar with the planning and two other sources familiar with the discussions. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly.
Striking inside Venezuela would be another escalation in the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged drug targets and its stance toward Venezuela’s government.
In recent weeks, the U.S. military struck at least three boats from Venezuela allegedly carrying narco-traffickers and drugs that could threaten Americans, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social. The administration has not provided evidence that drugs were on all of those boats. But an official in the Dominican Republic, alongside one from the U.S. Embassy there, did say at a press conference Sunday that drugs were found in the water after one strike.
Strikes inside Venezuela could happen in the next several weeks, but the president has not approved anything yet, the four people said. Two of them and an additional official familiar with the discussions said that the United States’ recent military escalation is in part a result of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro not doing enough, in the administration’s view, to stop the flow of illegal drugs out of his country.
The plans being discussed primarily focus on drone strikes against drug trafficking groups’ members and leadership, as well as targeting drug labs, the four sources said.
Asked for comment, the White House referred NBC News to this previous statement from the president: “We’ll see what happens. Venezuela is sending us their gang members, their drug dealers and drugs. It’s not acceptable.” The Pentagon declined to comment.
If this happens, it would be the first time the U.S. attacked drug cartels in their own country.
Before this, strikes have only taken place in international waters.
However, many advocates of peace through strength — including Matt Gaetz — agree it’s time to take out the dangerous drug trade, once and for all!
I was one of the most vocal doves in congress.
And I’m totally FOR this. It’s a clear mission with a direct benefit to America. https://t.co/GfPwKeN9KU
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) September 26, 2025
What do you think?
Would you support our military striking narco-terrorists in their own land?
REVEALED: “PERSON 1” in James Comey’s Indictment is Hillary Clinton
by Cristina Laila Sep. 26, 2025
On Thursday evening, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on two counts by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia – false statements and obstruction.
Details about Comey’s criminal indictment are still not immediately clear; however, we know that the former FBI Director was charged with lying to Congress during a hearing on September 30, 2020.
“On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1,” the indictment read.
“That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1,” the indictment read.
According to ABC News, “PERSON 1” mentioned in James Comey’s indictment is Hillary Clinton and “PERSON 3” is Comey’s secret media mole Daniel Richman.
“Sources tell ABC News that “PERSON 1” is Clinton and “PERSON 3″ is Richman,” ABC reporter Mike Levine said.
Newly declassified memos reveal James Comey’s secret media mole, Daniel Richman, leaked classified information to The New York Times’s Michael Schmidt to help push for a special counsel in May 2017.
In newly declassified memos, it was revealed that Comey shared classified information with Daniel Richman.
ABC News is reporting that Daniel Richman was Comey’s personal lawyer, however, Comey didn’t disclose this information until way later.
Not once did Comey ever disclose Daniel Richman was one of his personal lawyers or an unpaid employee of the FBI until right before his testimony.
The Justice Department is still offering few details about their case against former FBI director James Comey, but @abc News has learned that Count 1 of the indictment, charging Comey with making false statements, focuses on his alleged role in having his close friend and former…
— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) September 26, 2025
Pregnant Liberal Woman Suffers Fatal Tylenol Overdose After Trying to “Prove Trump Wrong” — Now Allegedly on Ventilator Fighting for Her Life: REPORT
Nicole Sirotek, founder of American Frontline Nurses, shared the tragic story of a pregnant woman who allegedly overdosed on Tylenol in an attempt to “prove Trump wrong”
by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 25, 2025 7:45 am
Nicole Sirotek, founder of American Frontline Nurses, claimed that she received a frantic 4 a.m. call from a distraught husband whose pregnant wife is now on a ventilator after overdosing on Tylenol.
According to Sirotek, the woman, who was between 23 and 25 weeks pregnant, attempted to ingest massive amounts of Tylenol in an effort to “prove Donald Trump wrong” after his recent remarks linking acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump on Monday announced that the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, can increase the risk of autism when used by pregnant women.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tylenol is tied to autism, ADHD, and liver toxicity in children.
“Today, the FDA will issue a physician’s notice about the risk of acetaminophen during pregnancy and begin the process to initiate a safety label change,” Secretary Kennedy said. “There is a potential association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis for ADHD and autism.”
Following the historic announcement, pregnant leftists took to TikTok to mock Trump and RFK Jr.’s warning about the drug. As one will see, X users collected several videos of these snarky libs popping Tylenol pills while acting like they’re performing some act of defiance.
Talk about the height of arrogance with little regard for the little human being inside of them.
In a post on X, Sirotek wrote:
“Got a frantic call at 4am from a husband who was given my phone number via someone who had it. His pregnant wife is now on a ventilator dying of liver failure trying to “prove” that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism since this is trending in TikTok.
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won’t survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
This behavior is ridiculous. This woman hated Trump so much because of the HARVARD STUDY on Tylenol and Autism she ultimately killed herself by overdosing on Tylenol to try and “prove Trump wrong.”
Her baby may not even survive either Her husband now may lose his entire family because of the craziness of liberal women chasing TikTok clout with TDS.””
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won’t survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
— Nicole Sirotek (@NicoleSirotek) September 24, 2025
In a follow-up video, Sirotek shared chilling details:
Sirotek:
“It’s going to be 6:00 AM, finally. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, I recommend that you do. I got a very frantic call at 4:00 in the morning from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a ventilator in an ICU because she was trying to prove that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism—because of what Trump said. Mind you, that’s a Harvard study.
Now, whether or not you believe the Harvard study is not the issue here. The issue is that she’s somewhere between 23 to 25 weeks, and she overdosed on Tylenol. She’s going to die. She’s not going to come off that ventilator.
The guy got my phone number from somebody. Somebody gave it to him. I mean, guys, it’s early in the morning. I’m still in Hello Kitty sweatpants at the gym trying to work out. She’s going to die.
Let me tell you something about Tylenol overdosing and death: if you aren’t administered the antidote, it is a very slow and painful death. Tylenol—as well as Benadryl and Aspirin—are the three most common OTCs that people will typically try to unalive themselves with, so don’t get censored.
But now people are just taking massive amounts of Tylenol to prove Trump wrong. I mean, weren’t these the same people who put Harvard and Fauci and the pillars of science on a pedestal? And now they refuse to believe it.
I don’t believe it’s going to do it either, but I’m also not going to go overdose on Tylenol. And it’s just so sad because he has to make the choice of them going and trying to emergency deliver this baby—and the baby may not survive.
The baby is going to spend a long time in the NICU. Hopefully, the baby will survive. Remember, guys, premies have complications even if they do survive. I didn’t ask him if he had more children. Let’s say this woman did. They have more children, but now they’ve lost their mother.
The baby’s not going to grow up with the mom. He’s lost his whole life if this baby dies too—all because of TikTok challenges. Everybody wants… well, not everybody, but maybe these crazy liberal women. They literally hate Trump so bad that she killed herself and her baby, potentially.
I’m just like—I don’t even have words for this because it’s such a waste of life.
It’s such a waste of life. This was a preventable situation. This situation didn’t even have to exist. It wasn’t like she woke up and was in a car accident, or something fell off a building and killed her. She willfully did this herself.
I don’t know. What are you guys saying? I’ve got to stay off TikTok because that’s all the nonsense I keep seeing right now. I’m going to try and hopefully finish my workout in my Hello Kitty sweatpants now that I’m done helping. Well, I mean, probably not done helping this guy—he keeps calling.
But I don’t know. Pray for these people, folks. Pray for them. They need help.”
WATCH:
Pregnant liberal took so much Tylenol after hearing Donald Trump say it causes autism she’s now in the ICU and is going to die
Executive Director of American Frontline Nurses got a “very frantic call at 4am from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a… pic.twitter.com/TtQqdF2bo1
🚨 Pregnant liberal took so much Tylenol after hearing Donald Trump say it causes autism she’s now in the ICU and is going to die
Executive Director of American Frontline Nurses got a “very frantic call at 4am from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a… pic.twitter.com/TtQqdF2bo1
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 25, 2025
The Gateway Pundit cannot independently verify Sirotek’s claims.
Skeptics online pressed Sirotek to verify the story, asking why mainstream media has ignored it.
“I would love to talk to the news about this situation and what is going on in hospitals. Remember I was the one who told everyone about what was going on in the hospitals in 2020. I was also the one who warned everyone about remdesivir and the Covid shot killing kids before the doctors finally caught on.
I would love to go on @JOErogan and let him know considering he’s had every doctor in but won’t get back to me. Or how about @jordan.b.peterson who has also spoke with the doctors but not the nurses? I had a scheduled phone call with him when he was on a book tour in Brussels which he missed.
Or how about @tuckercarlson and his @tuckercarlsonnetwor k? I’ve reached out to him and his network as well. Once again, he has spoken to the doctors but not the nurses. ’m down to talk to anyone that will listen, they just don’t want to listen to me because I’m “just a nurse”
Sirotek also responded to another comment that medical privacy laws prevent her from releasing identifying details without the husband’s consent.
According to the FDA and medical authorities, Tylenol (the brand name for acetaminophen) can cause overdose, which can lead to serious — even life-threatening — harm.
Aside from the fact that it can cause autism and ADHD, the FDA stated on its website:
Taking too much acetaminophen, also known as an acetaminophen overdose, is unsafe and can lead to liver failure and death. FDA has previously communicated to the public about how too much acetaminophen can lead to severe liver damage.
That is why the agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of overdose by limiting the amount of acetaminophen allowed in prescription drugs, requiring label changes for over-the-counter drugs containing acetaminophen, and requiring manufacturers to take certain actions for prescription drugs containing acetaminophen.
Joe Rogan Stunned by Liberal Pregnant Women Downing Tylenol to Own Trump: ‘This Science Came From Harvard’ (VIDEO)
Sep. 28, 2025
by Mike LaChance
Screencap of Twitter/X video
People have often joked that if Trump said breathing air is good for you, liberals would start dying of suffocation. Now we know there is some real truth behind that.
As the Gateway Pundit has reported, once the Trump administration cautioned pregnant women from taking Tylenol, pregnant liberal women started going on the internet and downing Tylenol, even filming it, in some cases with disastrous results.
On a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan commented on this, noting that this science has been backed up by Harvard.
The Daily Caller reports:
Podcast host Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Friday called out pregnant women who have been filming themselves consuming Tylenol in objection to President Donald Trump’s administration’s recommendation not to do so.
TikTok users ingested large amounts of Tylenol to mock Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after announcing the findings of an association between the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and autism diagnoses in children. Rogan noted on his podcast that the Trump administration cited a Harvard study to support its findings.
“I’ve been fascinated by these videos of pregnant women taking Tylenol to show Trump that they don’t believe in what RFK Jr. is saying, that it’s somehow or another anti-science — when this science came from Harvard,” Rogan said. “That’s where the study came from. He’s not making things up. And these people are like on TikTok — they’re pregnant women taking Tylenol.”
Watch the video:
NEW: Joe Rogan *BLASTS* "pregnant women taking Tylenol" to own Trump Admin
"This science came from Harvard. That's where the study came from. [RFK Jr. is] not making things up."@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/mb8MKgpwgH
🚨NEW: Joe Rogan *BLASTS* "pregnant women taking Tylenol" to own Trump Admin🚨
It really doesn’t seem to matter to these people what Trump says, they’re just automatically against it. If he said the sky is blue, CNN would run a fact check on it.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration is strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. “I want to say it like it is, don’t take Tylenol,” he said, encouraging women to “just fight like hell not to take it.” But his comments came under intense criticism from medical experts and researchers — because there’s no proof tying the painkiller to autism. He also made a number of dubious claims about autism, vaccines and treatments.
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Here’s a look at the facts.
Are autism rates increasing?
TRUMP: “Since 2000, autism rates have surged by much more than 400%.” He said the rate used to be 1 in 20,000, then 1 in 10,000 and now is 1 in 31, saying “there’s something artificial” to explain it.
THE FACTS: It’s true that autism rates have ballooned but Trump’s numbers are off. The 1 in 10,000 figure dates back to the 1990s. In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the rate at 1 in 150. In 2018, it was 1 in 44. The latest count, based on 2022 data, is 1 in 31.
Scientists say the explanation is that decades ago diagnosis was rare, given only to kids with severe problems. Diagnosis of “autism spectrum disorder” began jumping as scientists learned the developmental disorder encompasses a wide range of traits and symptoms. And as educational and other services grew, more parents began seeking diagnoses to help their kids.
Does maternal Tylenol use increase the baby’s chances of autism?
TRUMP: “Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.”
THE FACTS: Studies don’t prove that. Even Trump’s Food and Drug Administration didn’t go nearly that far in a letter to doctors this week that instead they “should consider minimizing” acetaminophen’s use in pregnancy.
It’s clear that genetics are the biggest risk factor. Other risks include the age of a child’s father, preterm birth and whether the mother had health problems during pregnancy such as fevers, infections or diabetes.
Some studies have raised the possibility of a link between autism risk and using acetaminophen during pregnancy — but more haven’t found a connection.
These are observational studies that compare health records about prenatal acetaminophen and autism traits in children. The big problem: Those kinds of studies can’t tell if the painkiller really made any difference – or if instead it was the fever or other health problem that prompted the need for the pill.
The Coalition of Autism Scientists notes that use of acetaminophen – or paracetamol as it’s known outside the U.S. — during pregnancy hasn’t increased in recent decades like autism rates have.
The risks of not treating a fever
TRUMP: “There’s no downside in not taking it,” he said in urging women to not take Tylenol during pregnancy.
THE FACTS: There are huge downsides to avoiding Tylenol when a pregnant woman really needs it, according to the nation’s leading pregnancy doctors. Untreated fevers, for example, can increase the risk of birth defects, premature birth and miscarriages, according to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Both the society and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say the painkiller is a safe and needed option during pregnancy. The over-the-counter drug’s label already tells pregnant women to consult their doctor about its use.
“The conditions people use acetaminophen to treat during pregnancy are far more dangerous than any theoretical risks,” ACOG said.
Autism has been gaining in visibility in Cuba
TRUMP: ““I hear Cuba doesn’t have it because it’s very expensive and they don’t have the money to have it, or they don’t want to spend the money to have it. They don’t have Tylenol. And I hear they have essentially no autism.”
THE FACTS: In Cuba, as in many regions around the world, autism has begun to gain visibility in recent years. Awareness campaigns have been launched on state television to promote the inclusion of autistic people. And according to Ministry of Education psychologist Lisbet Rizo Suárez, Cuba has nine educational institutions to serve autistic children.
As for paracetamol, as Tylenol is known outside of the U.S., it is widely used in Cuba and doctors prescribe it without restrictions.
Autism is found in Amish communities
TRUMP, saying certain groups that don’t take vaccines or pills have no autism, “the Amish, is an example. They have essentially no autism.”
THE FACTS: This is false. While there is limited scientific data around autism in the Amish community, studies have found that there are cases. A 2010 paper from the International Society for Autism Research found autism was less prevalent in Amish communities than the U.S. overall, but it called for further study to determine how “cultural norms and customs” played a role in the numbers.
Braxton Mitchell, an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who has worked with the Amish community for 30 years, said his group has confirmed there is autism in the community. He said Tylenol is used by many Amish and some choose to vaccinate their children, others do not.
But he said it is a challenge to gather reliable data on the subject because autism and other related conditions require clinical assessments and expert diagnosis, which Amish families may not seek out.
Trump overstates childhood vaccinations
TRUMP: “You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends.”
THE FACTS: The current childhood vaccination schedule recommends routine protection against 18 diseases. They’re not all given to “a little child” but at different ages.
How many shots that adds up to between birth and age 18 can vary. The number is closer to three dozen if you don’t count once-a-year flu shots or an annual COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccines have been proven to protect children from once common deadly diseases. There is no evidence that the schedule is harmful.
As for autism, scientists and leading advocacy groups for people with autism agree there’s no vaccine link to the disorder.
“Studies have repeatedly found no credible link between life-saving childhood vaccines and autism. This research, in many countries, involving thousands of individuals, has spanned multiple decades. Any effort to misrepresent sound, strong science poses a threat to the health of children,” said Dr. Susan Kressly of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Why infants should get a hepatitis B vaccine
TRUMP: “Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted. There’s no reason to give a baby that’s almost just born Hepatitis B. So I would say wait till the baby is 12 years old and formed.”
THE FACTS: Hepatitis B can cause serious liver damage and it’s true that in adults, the virus is spread through sex or sharing needles during injection-drug use.
But for babies, it’s a different story. If a pregnant woman carries the virus, she can pass it to her baby during delivery. While mothers-to-be are supposed to be tested, not all are. The virus also can live on surfaces for more than seven days at room temperature, meaning unvaccinated infants living with anyone with a chronic infection can be at risk.
Since 2005, U.S. health officials have recommended giving the first dose of a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth for most infants. As a result, infant infections have dropped sharply.
The issue with up MMR vaccines
TRUMP: The MMR, I think, should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel, the, mumps, measles and and the three should be taken separately. And it seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem. So there’s no downside in taking them separately. In fact, they think it’s better.”
THE FACTS: Trump is referring to the vaccine that combines protection against measles, mumps and rubella. And his suggestion of separating that one combination shot into three isn’t possible. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are no single-antigen versions – no measles-only, mumps-only, rubella-only shots – available.
Early concern about a possible link between vaccines and autism arose from falsified information about the MMR vaccine in a 1998 paper that was later retracted by the medical journal that published it.
Would it be safer for parents to break up vaccines for infants?
TRUMP: On spacing out vaccines for infants, “Break up your visits to the doctors. Break them up.”
THE FACTS: That message infuriates pediatricians.
“Spacing out or delaying vaccines means children will not have immunity against these diseases at times when they are most at risk,” said Kressly, the president of the AAP.
It’s also hard for parents to make repeat visits for vaccinations outside of the normal well-baby schedule.
Trump touts an unproven treatment for autism
TRUMP, discussing a possible new treatment: “And the baby can get better, and in some cases may be substantially better.”
THE FACTS: That’s not proven, at least not yet. Trump was referring to a folic acid metabolite called leucovorin – and it’s far from clear if it’s really an effective treatment and if so, for which people.
Low levels of folate, a form of vitamin B, are linked to certain birth defects so women already are told to take folic acid before conception and during pregnancy.
A small percentage of people with autism also appear to have low levels of folate in their brains, possibly because of antibodies that block it. The Autism Science Foundation cautions that their non-autistic relatives also often have those antibodies, suggesting that’s not a cause of autism.
But the theory is that giving folate to that subset of autistic people might improve certain symptoms. Only a few very small clinical trials have been done with the drug. So the foundation and other autism experts say large, rigorous studies are needed before it can be recommended as a treatment.
Maher: Dems Don’t Stand for Anything Other than Opposing Trump
Sep. 27, 2025
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed polling numbers about who voters prefer on different issues and stated that while some of the issues Democrats have are due to people being misinformed, Democrats also don’t have anything they stand for other than opposing President Donald Trump.
Maher said, “Trump’s numbers are down. They’re down with Latinos. They’re down with blacks. They’re down 15 points with whites. … And yet, in the other poll, on issues, Trump’s still winning. So, this is your big opportunity, Democrats. He’s down in the numbers, and you still can’t score.”
He added, “Now, some of this is just because people are f*cking stupid.” And cited Democrats only having a 2-point polling edge on respect for democracy as an example of this.
After Maher read more from the polling data, CNN host Michael Smerconish said, “The only thing the Democratic Party stands for today is opposition to Donald Trump.” And Maher responded, “Yeah.”
Smerconish added that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent book has no plan for Democrats in the future, which is “indicative of the party at large.” Which Maher also agreed with.
Hanoi’s first trial of AI-powered traffic cameras has exposed the scale of traffic violations in the city, recording over 1,400 instances of red-light running in just half a day.
The pilot system, launched on September 24 along Pham Van Bach Street, uses artificial intelligence to detect violations in real-time and send case files directly to a central command center. Unlike traditional cameras that simply record footage for later review, these AI units analyze behavior on the spot, identify offenders, and forward evidence to Hanoi police for fines and penalties.
Between midnight and noon on the first day of testing, the two cameras detected 1,339 motorbikes and 113 cars running red lights. In addition, 343 riders were caught without helmets, and three motorists were recorded driving against traffic.
The results alarmed traffic authorities, who said the high number of violations highlights a persistent lack of road safety awareness in the capital. A police spokesperson noted that the data reflects a worrying disregard for traffic laws that must be addressed.
AI cameras have also been tested on the Noi Bai–Lao Cai Expressway, capturing thousands of drivers not wearing seatbelts. Authorities see these early trials as evidence that AI technology could revolutionize traffic enforcement across Vietnam.
Plans are underway to install thousands of AI cameras in Hanoi and other provinces, shifting traffic management from manual police patrols to automated detection and fines.
Penalties for traffic violations are substantial. Car drivers caught running red lights face fines of VND18–20 million (US$720–800) and four demerit points on their license, rising to VND22 million and 10 points if the violation results in an accident. Motorcyclists face fines of VND4–6 million ($160–240).
Vietnam has risen to 5th place globally as one of the best destinations for expats, with employment being the top reason people relocate to the country—especially in the education sector.
According to InterNations’ Expat Insider 2025 survey, 22% of expatriates reported that they moved to Vietnam after securing or applying for a job locally, making it the most cited reason for relocation. Adventure and personal challenge ranked second at 13%, while international recruitment and being sent by an employer accounted for 7% each.
Once settled, education dominates as the primary employment sector for expats, representing 42% of those working abroad in Vietnam. This far surpasses other industries such as transportation and logistics, coaching and consulting, and media, which each account for around 10%.
Vietnam’s appeal to expats goes beyond work opportunities. The country ranks first globally for personal finances for the fifth consecutive year, with nearly nine out of ten respondents satisfied with the cost of living. Additionally, 87% say their disposable income is sufficient or more than sufficient to live comfortably. These financial advantages make Vietnam particularly attractive for mid-career teachers, language instructors, and school administrators who can secure employment quickly while maximizing their earnings.
The country also ranks 11th on the Working Abroad Index, reflecting solid scores across career prospects, salary and job security, work-life balance, and work satisfaction. While not at the very top, these results indicate a supportive environment for professionals, especially in education and training roles.
The Expat Insider survey, conducted by InterNations through February 2025, gathered responses from 10,085 expats across 172 nationalities living worldwide. It included a wide range of expats, from corporate assignees and retirees to self-made expats and those relocating for personal reasons.
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